The easiest-to-install NVIDIA GeForce Driver on Debian Linux 8 (Jessie) (for Debian 9 Stretch visit:how to install The latest NVIDIA drivers on Debian 9 Stretch Linux) are to use official contrib and Non-free Debian repository. First, add the following non-free and contrib repositories to your
/etc/apt/sources.list
. Therefore, first change the content of your
/etc/apt/sources.list
File to include
contrib
and
non-free
Packages eg.:
Deb Http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/jessie main contrib non-freedeb-src Http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/jessie main Contrib Non-free
Next, update your repositories:
# Apt-get Update
At the
nvidia-driver
Package becomes available for the installation:
# Apt-get Install nvidia-drivernvidia-current:running module version sanity check. -Original Module -No Original module exists within this kernel-installation -installing to/lib/modules/3.16. 0-4-amd64/updates/dkms/nvidia-uvm.ko:running Module version sanity check. -Original Module -No Original module exists within this kernel-installation -installing to/lib/modules/3.16. 0-4-amd64/updates/dkms/depmod .... Dkms:install completed. Setting up Nvidia-settings (340.46-2) ... Setting up Libegl1-nvidia:amd64 (340.65-2) ... Setting up Xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (340.65-2) ... Setting up Nvidia-driver (340.65-2) ... Processing triggers for Libc-bin (2.19-13) ... Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.116) ...
During the installation you'll see a notification on conflicting version of the free software nouveau nvidia driver W ITH your currently being installed Non-free nvidia kernel module which you can simply ignore.
Conflicting Nouveau kernel module loaded the free nouveau kernel module are currently loaded and conflicts with the non -free nvidia kernel module. The easiest-to-reboot the machine once the installation have finished.
Wait for the installation to finish and once do generate a new
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
Xorg configuration file with
nvidia-xconfig
Command. First, install
nvidia-xconfig
Package
# Apt-get Install Nvidia-xconfig
After the installation is finished execute
nvidia-xconfig
command to generate new
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
Config file:
# nvidia-xconfignew X configuration file written to '/etc/x11/xorg.conf
If The above command shows message about the lack of a previous
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
Config file simply disregard it and reboot your system to load a newly installed Nvidia driver. After the reboot, login to your desktop and start the official
nvidia-settings
Configuration tool either from command line:
$ nvidia-settings
or by starting it using a relevant menu under the Start button to access more Nvidia graphic card configuration settings. Original: Https://linuxconfig.org/nvidia-geforce-driver-installation-on-debian-jessie-linux-8-64bit
NVIDIA GeForce Driver installation on Debian Jessie Linux 8 64bit